Isaac Burrell arrived in Roanoke, Virginia in 1893 as one of its first black doctors. He started a pharmacy on Gainsborough Road between Patton and Harrison Avenues that eventually became the largest black owned pharmacy in southwest Virginia. Burell was born on March 10, 1865 at his father's farm in Chula, Virginia, in Amelia County, […]
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